Agricultural injuries among older Kentucky farmers: The farm family health and hazard surveillance study

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 341-353

  Browning, Steven R ^a,c   Truszczynska, Helena ^b   Reed, Deborah ^a   McKnight, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Department of Preventive Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Epidemiology; Injuries; Occupational risk; Safety; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KENTUCKY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031921871     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199804)33:4<341::AID-AJIM4>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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